Strangeness, Charm and Beauty in Particle Physics

Vera Luth Retirement Symposium

Speakers

The schedule will be:

  • 08:00 — Coffee / Check-in
  • 08:45 — Welcome

From Strangeness to Charm (Stan Wojcicki, Stanford)

  • 09:00 — Kaons - The Early Experiments: Jack Steinberger (U. Pisa and CERN)
  • 09:30 — Neutral Kaons - Epsilon' and Beyond: Heinrich Wahl (U. Ferrara and CERN)
  • 10:00 — Early Days at Spear, Mark I/II: Burton Richter (SLAC)
  • 10:45 — Coffee Break

Detector Innovations (Witold Kozanecki, CEA Saclay)

  • 11:15 — Semiconductor Devices for Tracking and Imaging: Robert Klanner (University of Hamburg)
  • 12:00 — The BaBar Detector: Stewart Smith (Princeton)
  • 12:45 — Lunch

From Charm to Beauty (Ida Peruzzi, U. Perugia)

  • 14:15 — Charmonium Spectroscopy: Claudia Patrignani (INFN, Genoa)
  • 15:00 — Theoretical Aspects of B Physics: Zoltan Ligeti (LBNL)
  • 15:45 — Coffee Break

B Decays (Jeff Richman, UC Santa Barbara)

  • 16:15 — Measurement of V_cb and V_ub: Robert Kowalewski (University of Victoria)
  • 17:00 — Rare B Decays: Gabriella Sciolla (MIT)
  • 17:45 — Closing Remarks
  • 18:30 — Reception at Quadrus
  • 19:00 - 21:30 — Dinner